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Leverage Embedded Experience from Wind River to Connect with New 5G Markets
5G BRINGS NEW OPPORTUNITIES
TO OPERATORS
EMERGING 5G OPPORTUNITIES
5G technology, bringing improved latency, capacity, and speed, is expected
to enable new business models and use cases in a wide range of market
segments. Clearly the most impacted market is telecom, which will be
required to deploy large amounts of networking infrastructure, such as
virtual radio access networks (vRAN) to support the new spectrum and
resulting use cases.
It's expected that the automotive industry will become the largest market
opportunity for 5G Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, representing 53% of
the overall 5G IoT endpoint opportunity in 2023,
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according to Gartner. The
company also forecasts strong demand for 5G-enabled outdoor cameras
used by city and building operators to enhance physical security.
Other 5G-relevant market segments are factory automation and logistics,
in which robots perform manufacturing tasks and carry materials around
warehouses. In medical, ultra-low latency 5G networks will support remote,
collaborative surgery with doctors and patients in different geographic
locations. Agricultural use cases include automated tractors and drones
helping to plant and harvest crops. And these are just a handful of the
emerging opportunities.
CULTIVATING NEW 5G MARKETS
Network operators will invest up to $1 trillion in 5G networks between 2018
and 2025,
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and, of course, they are looking for ways to maximize the return
on this enormous expenditure. This effort includes offering new revenue-
generating services in emerging 5G markets such as the aforementioned.
With nearly 40 years of embedded experience, Wind River
®
provides the
5G INDUSTRY CHALLENGES
• Manage complex, distributed net-
works with large numbers of base
stations
• Deliver high levels of performance:
latency, capacity, and determinism
• Transition from 4G to 5G
• Maintain security throughout the
lifecycle
• Minimize operational cost and total
cost of ownership (TCO)
WIND RIVER SOLUTIONS
• Wind River Cloud Platform:
Open source, production-grade
distributed Kubernetes that simpli-
fies the deployment and manage-
ment of edge networks requiring
ultra-low latency
• Wind River Linux: Industry-leading,
open source operating system for
connecting, securing, and running
network infrastructure: systems,
networks, and devices
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SOLUTION BRIEF